JUVENILE CHOIRS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10095, 7 September 1925, Page 2

JUVENILE CHOIRS

“A VALUABLE ART.”

The absence of entries in the classes for juvenile choirs at Wellington despite the fact that the music chosen has been of an especially attractive description, was commented upon by Mr Roland Foster, adjudicator of vocal music, during a conversation with a Dominion reporter. “There is a group of British composers of the highest rank who are devoting their great talents to an admirable work in providing music essentially suitable to the needs of tho children’s voices, with interesting words, to which musical expression is given in such a way that the youngest of singers can. grasp it and the oldest of hearers appreciate it,’’ said Mr Foster. He considered that the study of such music was beneficial to the children’s general intelligence and their sense of the beautiful. And whatever objections might be advanced against individual training for competitive purposes there could be no reasonable opposition to collective study of an art which remained an acquisition for all time. Mr Foster concluded by stating that now musical instruction was to he, he understood, specially provided in the Wellington schools, it was to be hoped that future years would see a satisfactory number of entries.